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1 — Introduction

Content

• 1.1 — Videos of American Sign Language
• 1.2 — Language purity and prescriptivism
• 1.3 — Links
• Test your knowledge of this chapter

Additional

• A brief outline of the history of linguistics (PDF, 231 KiB)